Car-coupling



(No Model.)

GAR COUPLING.

Patented Mar. 17, 1891.

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TOM FULL BRIGHT, OF DETROIT, TEXAS.

CAR-COUPLING.

To (0Z6 whom it may concern:

Be it known that. I, Ton FULL BRIGHT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Detroit, in the county of Red River and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Gar- Coupling, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to car-couplings, and more especially to thatclass known as springpin supports; and the object of the invention is toeffect improvements upondevices of this character heretofore existing.

To this end the invention consists of the devices hereinafter more fullydescribed and illustrated in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is anelevation of the left side of my improved car-coupling, showing the sameas ready for the reception of the link of an approaching car. Fig. 2 isa similar elevation after the link has passed into the drawhead and thepin has been projected therethrough. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view.

Referring to the said drawings, the letter D designates the draw-head ofmy improved carcoupling, which is guided in a suitable frameworksupported by and beneath the car-body and so arranged upon itsbuffer-springs that it will have a slight longitudinal play in saidframe-work.

R is a rod pivoted at its front end to the side of the draw-head andpivotally connected at its rear end to a transverse bar B, which bar ispivotally mounted upon the stem of a yoke Y. To the other end of the barB is pivotally connected a second rod '1", also guided in theframe-work, and whose free end carries a depending lug G, standing nearthe other side of the draw-head. By this arrangement, when the draw-headis driven to the rear by the force of the blow received in coupling withanother draw-head, the lug G will be pressed to the front.

y is a yoke mounted in the frame-work F at one side, and T is a trip-barpivoted at one end in said yoke and at its other end engaging aflnotch Non a bar 11, depending from the frame.

P is the coupling-pin mounted in the front endof an operating-lever O,and normally forced upwardly through the hole in the drawhead by acoiled spring S, connecting the body of the operating-lever with theframe-work.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,497, dat'ed March17, 1891.

Application filed December 17, 1890. Serial No. 375,016. (No model.)

The rear end of said lever is pivoted in the yoke Y, as shown, and itsfront end passes through the parallel guide-rods L and beneath thetrip-bar T.

hen it is desired to couple the car to another car,the link in thelatter is locked therein and the two cars are broughttogther. When theapproaching draw-head strikes the one here illustrated, the link isguided into the latter by the link-guide I, approximately, as shown, orof any suitable construction, and the draw'head is driven to the rear.This movement carries the lug G forward and disengages the trip-bar Tfrom the notch N, whereby the operating-lever O is allowed to rise bythe force of its spring S, and the coupling-pin P is passed upwardlythrough the link, all these parts having previously been set in a mannerwhich will be readily seen.

It will be understood that thisimproved carcoupling and all of itsmechanism are suitably mounted beneath the car-body in such a manner asto be out of the way and practically out of sight. The frame-work F maycomprise other parts, which may carry the air-brakes and other devicesessential to a railroad-car of the latest type, all as indicated in thedrawings, but which I do not consider necessary to be described atlength herein.

What I claim is 1. In a car-coupling, the combination,with the draw-headsliding in a suitable framework, a rod R, pivoted thereto, a bar 13,pivoted at its center to said frame-work, one end of said bar beingpivoted to the rear end of said rod, and a second rod 9, pivoted at itsrear end to the other end of said bar and having a lug at its front end,of a yoke y, mounted in the frame-work, a trip-lever T, pivoted in saidyoke, a depending bar at at the other side of the frame-work, having anotch N engaging said trip-bar, and a coupling pin pressed normallyupward through said drawhead by a spring and held in uncoupled positionby said trip-bar when engaged in said notch, the whole operatingsubstantially as described.

2. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head sliding in asuitable framework beneath the car-body, a rod R, pivoted to one side ofthe draw-head, ayoke Y, mounted in the frame-work near its free end, abar B,

centrally pivoted upon the stem of said yoke, one end of said bar beingpivoted to the rear end of said rod R, and a second rod 2', pivoted atits rear end to the other end of said liar and having a lug G at itsfront end, of a yoke 3 i mounted in the side of the framework, a tripbarT, pivoted in said yoke, a depending bar )1 at the other side of theframe-work, having a notch N engaging said trip-bar, an operating-leverO, pivoted in the rearinost yoke Y and carrying a coupling-pin 1 at itsfront end passing normally upward through a hole t Witnesses:

J. N. Nonnis, W. G. IIAMILToN.

